Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where two tractors are of equal power , the heavier will probably need to be in a lower gear to pull the same weight . |
| 2 | His achievements to date were listed : charges laid on the railway in the Tobruk area on the night of 14 October ; a failed attempt to do the same near Sidi Barani which resulted in the death of the patrol commander , Lieutenant Shorten ; two further breaks in the railway on 24 October ; nine breaks on 29 October , and finally another attack on the track on 31 October . |
| 3 | Many have another trick to make the most of the available light . |
| 4 | We would like to take this opportunity to thank the many people who have written to us . |
| 5 | Barclay was the first English lexicographer to attempt the latter . |
| 6 | You can buy a strong slim trowel to do the same job and there are several on the market . |
| 7 | Anthropological analysis of these beliefs , I believe , should add a crucial semantic dimension to compliment the many non-qualitative enquiries into policing now in progress . |
| 8 | This capacity to generate the same response to part of a pattern as to the whole of it is one of the merits of network systems ( see chapter 7 ) . |
| 9 | No systematic attempt is made at this point to resolve the many doubts about the details of Hocazade 's career , particularly the dates of his various appointments , since his career impinges on those of a number of Muftis and the conflicts are more appropriately discussed in detail where they arise in these contexts . |
| 10 | They believe Britain should pull out of the project and find another weapon to fill the same role . |
| 11 | Whereas the time taken for a computer working randomly but with the constraint of cumulative selection to perform the same task is of the same order as humans ordinarily can understand , between 11 seconds and the time it takes to have lunch . |
| 12 | Interface details may be qualitatively insubstantial , after all the program is a spreadsheet program , not an interface program , and may be written in different code to achieve the same purpose . |
| 13 | The German Foreign Minister , Herr Hans Dietrich Genscher , is due in Tbilisi this week to do the same , followed later this month by his French counterpart , M Roland Dumas . |
| 14 | The adequacy of the safety regulations , which allowed lighter craft to use the same bridge arches as heavy vessels was criticised , and immediate changes in regulations were brought . |
| 15 | Bookies make the strapping seven-year-old gelding a 14-1 shot to provide the former point-to-point trainer with an incredible family triumph in the third week of March . |
| 16 | Mr Honecker chose a different image to make the same point : attempts to destabilise socialism , he said , are like ‘ the fruitless attacks by Don Quixote against windmills that continue to turn imperturbably . ’ |
| 17 | The further development of these lines of thought may lead to a deeper understanding of the underlying principles of health and disease and an enhanced ability to convert the latter to the former . |
| 18 | The crucial phrase in the White Paper guidance was that the Authority should not license more than one British airline to serve the same route , with British Airways as the preferred airline to the USA . |
| 19 | Furthermore , of course , if the government did possess an important informational advantage there would be a strong incentive for the private sector to obtain the same information , so one might expect the advantage to be gradually eroded . |
| 20 | The problem of volume storage is compounded by the need to refresh the screen at the equivalent of 25 frames each second to achieve the same effect as television video . |
| 21 | The Cambridge based project forms the ‘ umbrella ’ to wider collaborative research in which several independently financed groups will work in other countries using a similar methodology to address the same issues . |
| 22 | BUILDING work on a new county jail in Florida was falling woefully behind schedule , despite the critical need for additional space to house the many arrested as suspected drug offenders . |
| 23 | In another series of cases the Court has condemned national laws which require undertakings which are licensed to carry out particular activities in one member state having to obtain a second licence to provide the same services in another member state where the licensing requirements in the first member state adequately safeguard all necessary requirements for the protection of the public interest . |
| 24 | Indeed , the machine is so massive that a tokamak reactor would need something like 17 times as much material to produce the same power output as a pressurised-water reactor . |
| 25 | Basically this involves using the right foot to draw the ball into the post from the left side of the field and the left foot to do the same from the right side . |
| 26 | So the welcome opportunity to name the same line-up and two substitutes gives the City boss hope against a side one point and two places beneath them , but with two games in hand . |
| 27 | From the church came a dual impulse strengthening this morality : the prevailing teaching on sexual abstention outside of marriage under pain of mortal sin , and the rigorous life of a clergy pledged to chastity and preaching the need for an unmarried laity to practise the same degree and kind of circumspection in sexual matters which the clergy had been taught to impose upon themselves . |
| 28 | Next , he says , SBUs may well form alliances outside the corporate group to obtain the same benefits as could be obtained by internal linkages while retaining more control over their situation . |
| 29 | The annual celebration of the ‘ World day of the Sick ’ , therefore , has the manifest purpose of making the People of God and , as a consequence , the many Catholic health care institutions and civil society itself , more aware of the necessity of ensuring the best possible care for the infirm ; of helping the sick person to make the most of suffering , on the human level , but most of all on the supernatural one ; of especially helping the dioceses , Christian communities and religious families to be involved in the health care of apostolate ; of enhancing the ever more valuable commitment of volunteers ; or reminding people of the importance of the spiritual and moral training of health care workers , and last of all of creating a better understanding of the importance of religious care for the sick among diocesan and religious priests , as well as among those who live and work at the side of the person in pain . |
| 30 | Two elderly ladies getting out seemed to be having difficulty in trying to persuade a large dog to do the same . |